What powers medium.com?
Last seen Aug 2026 · 88 technologies across 39 categories
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AI Crawlers
Restricts 8 of 33 AI crawlers we track by name in its robots.txt. Checked Sep 2026.
Training crawlers
- Applebot-Extended Restricted
- Bytespider Restricted
- ClaudeBot Restricted
- FacebookBot Restricted
- GoogleOther Restricted
- GPTBot Restricted
- meta-externalagent Restricted
Search and AI assistants
- Amazonbot Restricted
The other 25 AI crawlers we track are not mentioned and only inherit the catch-all rules that apply to every crawler.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not checked
- ai.txt not checked
Top backlinks
Top links pointing at the site, one per source domain, strongest first. The anchor text opens the page carrying the link.
AI Crawlers
8 of 33 AI crawlers restricted
Audience
- 55% phone
- 44% desktop
- 2% tablet
United States
India
United Kingdom
Indonesia
Germany
Canada
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
9.35 / 10 · ranked #64 of all domains
167,827 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
12,771,000 est. monthly organic visits (US)
6,404,082 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 2.4 s |
| INP | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 1300 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026.
Page
- Language: English
- CDN: Cloudflare
- Weight: 1.7 MB · 106 requests
- Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Sep 2026.
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Closest technology stacks among the highest-authority sites we track; "shared" counts the distinctive technologies in common.
Organisation
- Medium
- Founded: 2012
- Sector: publishing
- Country: United States
From the homepage's own structured data (Sep 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Registered May 1998 (28 years) via Amazon Registrar, Inc., renews May 2027
- Hosted on Cloudflare (162.159.152.4)
- DNS: Cloudflare DNS
- Email: no MX record returned
- SSL: Google Trust Services, ECDSA P256, wildcard, expires Dec 2026
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 46, 114,814 hosts
DNS records as swept Sep 2026, certificate as seen Sep 2026, registration from the registry's RDAP service. How the web is hosted
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